Lottery officials said that two lottery players from Illinois are now millionaires after winning Wednesday's Powerball jackpot.

The Lowcountry woman turned a $3 Cosmic Crossword scratch-off ticket into a $75,000 windfall, the South Carolina Education Lottery announced July 11. “I was in disbelief and shock,” she told lottery officials. The lucky winner bought her ticket at a Saint George convenience store in Dorchester County, according to lottery officials.

After a Maryland woman scanned her lottery tickets, she couldn’t sleep — but for a good reason. The human resources specialist was on her lunch break July 7 and stopped by a Baltimore convenience store, where she bought some lottery tickets per the suggestion of a friend, Maryland Lottery officials said in a July 11 news release.

The News Journal archives from July 13-19 include the Wilmington ice rink debate of 2000, problems with the state lottery in 1975 and a rescue in 1925.

A lottery player “didn’t feel all that lucky” — then he won a huge prize. “ Life has changed ,” the winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 10 news release. “I’m trying to stay calm.”

Saturday's drawing offers the largest lottery prize this weekend in Ohio, with Mega Millions at $80 million and Classic Lotto at $5.1 million.

A Michigan man is plotting how to spend and save his fortune after winning a $4 million prize from a scratch-off ticket. The man, who has chosen to remain anonymous, played the Michigan Lottery’s $4,000,

Let’s rock and roll,” one of the siblings said after his sister called him to tell him about the big win in Maryland.

SANFORD, N.C. (WNCN) — A Lee County man won the first $1 million top prize of a new game, lottery officials said Friday. Ricky Nunnery Jr. of Sanford bought the winning $1,000,000 Triple Play ticket for $10 from Wink Mart on Deep River Road in Sanford, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.

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When a Connecticut man lost his lottery ticket, he “didn’t think too much of it.” However, fate had other plans. Looking “for some superstitious fun” on Friday, June 13, Russell Ruff of Somers bought a Powerball ticket for the drawing the next day, Connecticut Lottery officials said in a July 7 news release. The ticket, though, vanished.